The authors begin from the premise that it is useful to analyse broad trends in international affairs by identifying key moments of change. primary focus current phase has been labelled post-Cold War world. accept fall USSR at end 1991 marked an important change geopolitics but argue 30-year time period since Soviet Union some very changes. era began with a seemingly omnipotent United States pr...

NATO has successfully provided security and stability in Europe through the Cold War era. However, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact has changed the strategic environment in Europe. The new situation is defined by these significant facts: x A direct confrontation between two superpowers does not seem possible x Present day Russia does not have the influence zone it used...

President Clinton took office in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the international security environment. Reacting to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the administration’s new civilian leaders at the Pentagon undertook a “Bottom-Up Review” of U.S. military requirements to set the guidelines for the administration’s $1.3trillion, five-year defense program. Despite its p...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) pursuit for a Zone Peace, Freedom and Neutrality (ZOPFAN) first began during the Cold War, at time intense superpower rivalry in Asia. ASEAN reaffirmed importance this principle 2020, amid growing concerns instability Asia-Pacific region as result increasing tensions between United States (US) China. Through an examination ZOPFAN principle, pa...

with the expression of the modernization theory as the dominant paradigmof development during the 1950s, approaches towards development were extracted from this paradigm. but with the birth of the attachment school ofthought, the modernization theory was scrutinized. for latin american countries  however,  the  attachment  school  of  thought  was  considered  amarxist ideology up until the end...